“I started playing guitar and writing songs when I was 15. I think what mainly sparked my interest was just the fact that I grew up listening to Cheryl King, Joni Mitchell, and James Taylor, and was just always inspired by that sort of organic art, and organic songs and just very natural songwriting that came out of some of those artists.” ThinkingWritingArtFactsArtistSongInterestNaturalListeningGrewKingsGrew UpInspiredGuitarSongwritingWriting SongsPlaying Guitar Author:Kate Voegele
“If the man who paints only the tree, or flower, or other surface he sees before him were an artist, the king of artists would be the photographer. It is for the artist to do something beyond this.” IfsMenWould BeArtistTreeHe ManFlowerKingsPhotographyPaintPhotographerSurface Book:The Gentle Art of Making Enemies Source: The Gentle Art of Making Enemies
“When Sir Joshua Reynolds died All Nature was degraded; The King dropped a tear in the Queen's ear, And all his pictures faded.” ArtistTearsKingsEarsDiedQueensFaded Author:William Blake
“We [black people] don't respect our elders. Besides artists, we don't respect Frederick Douglass. We don't respect Martin Luther King. You look at every Martin Luther King Boulevard out here, and it's a crack block. That's not because of white people. That's because of black leadership. We just have that problem, and it's something that I am going to spend the rest of my life trying to conquer.” PeopleTryingLooksProblemArtistBlackWhiteKingsBlockConquerCracksBlack PeopleEldersLutherBoulevard Author:KRS-One
“A king or a prince becomes by accident a part of history. A poet or an artist becomes by nature and necessity a part of universal humanity.” ArtistHumanityGreatnessPoetKingsUniversalAccidents Book:A commonplace book of thoughts, memories and fancies, original and selected Source: A commonplace book of thoughts, memories and fancies, original and selected
“The incomparable Michael Jackson has made a bigger impact on music than any other artist in the history of music. He was magic. He was what we all strive to be. He will always be the King of Pop! Life is not about how many breaths you take, but about how many moments in life that take your breath away. For anyone who has ever seen, felt or heard his art, we are all honored to have been alive in this generation to experience the magic of Michael Jackson. I love you, Michael.” Has BeensArtMadeMomentsLife IsArtistFeltAliveGenerationsMagicHeardLove YouKingsBiggerBreathsImpactStrivePopsHonoredThis GenerationIncomparableHistory Of Music Author:Beyonce Knowles
“If that one is already a great artist, who knows how to educe from a small piece of wood the face of a king or of a queen, an ant or a camel, how great then is the mastery which can form as actuality everything which is in all potentiality? Therefore, God, who is able to produce from the most minute piece of matter the similitude of all forms which can be in this world and in infinitely many worlds, is of admirable subtlety.” IfsKnowsWorldMatterAbleFacesFormArtistKnow HowPiecesMinutesThis WorldProduceKingsWoodsQueensMasteryGreat ArtAntsAdmirableGreat ArtistSubtletyCamelsActualitySmall Pieces Author:Nicholas of Cusa
“As an artist, it's a great opportunity to play a character like this [Ugandan dictator Idi Amin in The Last King of Scotland]. And then, as a person, I had never been to the African continent. So, I knew, personally, it would reshape me.” PersonsPlayCharacterLastsArtistOpportunityKingsContinentsDictatorScotlandGreat OpportunityAfrican Continent Author:Forest Whitaker
“McDonald's offers a king's ransom to any hip-hop artist who is able to put Big Mac into a song. MTV - and more to the point, Viacom - is succeeding in extending a teenage life to twenty-nine or even thirty-one years old. It is about extending this market and removing any intelligent substance in the music.” YearsBigsAbleArtistSongKingsOffersSucceedTwentiesIntelligentHip HopNineHipsSubstanceThirtyHopsTeenageMcdonaldsMacsExtendingMtvRansomHip Hop ArtistTeenage LifeBig Mac Author:Chuck D
“My problem with political art is not that it's bad art necessarily, but that it is terrible politics. We're talking about a closeted person with minimum contact with reality who has trouble tying his f**king shoes! And he's supposed to be political? A bus driver has a better perspective on things. Artists are completely indulgent.” PersonsArtProblemRealityPoliticalArtistTalkingTroublePerspectiveKingsTerribleArt IsShoesContactSupposed To BeDriversBusMinimumBus DriverPerspective On ThingsPolitical Art Author:Jonathan Santlofer
“We must declare ourselves, become known; allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.” WorldImportantArtistLiteratureEmotionKnownBoysObjectsKingsDiversitySocial JusticeImportant ThingsFarmsClerks Author:Gore Vidal